Pages

Thursday, December 11, 2014

The perfect Christmas cookie

I’m in the kitchen again…I know, don’t pass out. It happens occasionally. ;) I’m hosting a Christmas party for girlfriends tonight (we had to do it on a weeknight because this time of year is so crazy!) and we’re doing a cookie exchange as well.

I begged my sister to come over to help make some with me (she’s the baker). She was too busy but passed on her favorite snickerdoodle recipes she found here – it’s a quick and easy one and I had most everything on hand.

If you can’t tell by now quick prep and easy ingredients are my staples when it comes to cooking. I don’t share many recipes on the blog but when I do you know it’s good and easy to make!

I used my mixer for this recipe but the comments say you’ll get an even fluffier cookie mixing by hand. I was doing this quick so didn’t want to mess with that – and they still came out plenty fluffy. :)

I read after I was done that if you don’t have cream of tartar (which is one item I had to pick up) that you can substitute two teaspoons of lemon juice or vinegar for one teaspoon of the tartar – good to know!

After mixed well, shape them into balls and them roll them in the cinnamon sugar topping:

Pop them in the oven for eight to ten minutes and that’s it! I did eight minutes on the dot for each batch and then immediately put them on another tray to cool. They are PERFECT.

The recipe says this makes 48 cookies but I made mine bigger so I ended up with about 30. We now have about 26 left. Oops.

I think snickerdoodles are the perfect Christmas cookie! I’ve never made them before now and was surprised with how easy they were to make. Maybe baking isn’t that hard? ;)

Can’t wait to see what the girls bring tonight. I’m hoping we have enough of these left by then. I had one for breakfast:

Do you have an easy Christmas cookie recipe you love? Feel free to share it in the comments!

10 comments:

We make magic cookie bars every year. They are so easy, they make a whole pan, and they literally last one day around here! And listen, I don't even care for coconut that much, but these are my favorite cookie ever! http://www.eaglebrand.com/recipes/magic-cookie-bars-3934

Please don't substitute for the cream of tarter. They never turn out as well with liquid substitutes. The other thing I do is use butter flavored crisco for the shortening which makes them even more buttery. Yum! One more comment (can you tell I love snickerdoodles?) is instead of cinnamon sugar, roll them in a mix of pumpkin pie spice and sugar. They are even better. This year I'm trying a mix of Chinese five spice powder and sugar, up it another notch I hope.As for my tastiest, easiest Christmas cookie ever, I suggest cherry dots. Butter, flour, sugar, candied cherries, a little milk and vanilla extract. Best of all, with no egg, I can eat all the cookie dough I want.

Snickerdoodles are my favorite too. I always keep cream of tartar around just because of that. :) They are really easy to make and oh so good!!! Enjoy!! hmmm.... will have to try the pumpkin pie spice/sugar instead of rolling in cinnamon/sugar. Another easy one is the peanut butter kiss cookies. Peanut butter cookies, but don't flatten them and then when they come out of the oven, put a hershey kiss in the middle. I have also done sugar cookies with Hershey's hugs, rolling the sugar cookies in colored sugar before baking. I make so many cookies at Christmas!! eek!